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Mexican American families --- Women --- Girls --- New Mexico

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In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood.

Familia --- Familias mexicano-americanas --- Girls --- Girls. --- Mexican American families --- Mexican American families. --- Muchachas --- Novela --- Texas --- Texas.

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"Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds: how the authors or their characters create or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla or living in the inbetween space of the borderland is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life: the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Nepantla is the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will find a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all"--

Mexican Americans --- Mexican American families. --- Mexican American families --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Ethnic identity. --- Cultural assimilation. --- In literature. --- Mexican-American Border Region

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Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled-crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in California, apples in Washington, cucumbers in Michigan, onions and potatoes in Wisconsin, and tomatoes in Iowa. Winters they returned home to the Winter Garden region of South Texas. In 1951, Saúl Sánchez began to contribute to his family's survival by helping to weed onions in Wind Lake, Wisconsin. He was e

Migrant labor --- Emigration and immigration law. --- Labor market. --- Mexican American families --- Mexican Americans --- Social conditions. --- Sánchez, Saúl,

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Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community WritingBrokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students.

Mexican Americans --- Mexican American families --- Literacy --- Mentoring in education --- After-school programs --- Community and school --- Home and school --- School and community --- Schools --- Parents' and teachers' associations --- After-school education --- Afterschool programs --- Education --- Mentors in education --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Families, Mexican American --- Families --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- School and home --- Parent-teacher relationships --- Social conditions --- Social aspects